Alban Berg

Alban Berg the great modernist composer was born on February 9th 1885 in Vienna and died on December 24th 1935 in Vienna. His family was solidly upper middle class and Berg’s youth ful interest centered more around literature then music .Berg taught himself how to read music when he was a teenager. Also at the age of seventeen he fathered a child with a household servant. Berg as a young man was an ‘artistic type’ very tall elegantly clothed and bearing a strong resemblance to Oscar Wilde. He became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in 1904 first studying... Read More

City Of Origin:

Vienna, Austria

Genre:

Classical, Modern

Birthdate:

02/09/1885

Death date:

12/24/1935

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